¹¹ Will the citizens of Keilah hand me over to him? Will Saul come down just as Your servant has heard? Lord God of Israel, please, tell Your servant.” And the Lord said, “He will come down.” ¹² Then David said, “Will the citizens of Keilah hand me and my men over to Saul?” And the Lord said, “^(A)They will hand you over.”

⁹ But ^(A)the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, saying, “Be careful that you do not pass this place, because the Arameans are coming down there.” ¹⁰ And the king of Israel sent scouts to the place about which the man of God had told him; so he warned him, so that he was on his guard there, ^[a]more than once or twice.

⁶ And He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great ^(A)abominations which the house of Israel are committing here, so that I would be far from My sanctuary? But yet you will see still greater abominations!”